SECT. XIX. LISTS OF TREES, &C. 343 



4 Tobacco, common broad and narrow leaved Virginian. 

 3 Xer anthem urn, or eternal flower, \vh. violet and purple. 

 3 Zinnia, yellow few flowered, and red many flowered. 



*.#* The seeds of niost of these flowers will come up in 

 cold ground, (if not sown too early) but are forwarded by a 

 little heat, so as to have them much earlier, and a finer 

 blow, producing seed, which late plants will not. The 

 sdrts that most require a little heat are, aster, basil, geranium, 

 love apple, mar-eel of Peru, palma Christi, yellow sultan, and 

 zinnia. 



The gourd may be added to this class; but to succeed 

 zcell, it should have a good south wall to be trained against, 

 and it will take up a good deal of room there. Sorts mb- 

 merous, as to size, shape, and colour. The common pumpion 

 (see page 253) is the hardiest ; and the warted orange gourd 

 is the prettiest. 



OBSERVATIONS ON PARTICULAR FLOWERS. 



Aster, to come forward and fine, should have a 

 second slight hot- bed to prick a few out upon, and 

 indeed this would be a great advantage to any of 

 the other sorts. Those not thus forwarded, will make 

 a second blow. The striped sorts are much the 

 prettiest, yet the plain ones make a good shew, and 

 do very well for shrubberies, &c. particularly the 

 superb white and red. It is a good way to plant a 

 IGW asters, or any flowers designed for seed, in beds 

 by themselves, in a way of nursery, as in the best 

 borders it is much neater to have all decaying flowers 

 pulled off regularly, as soon as their beauty is over : 

 Pull up all bad flowers (as soon as ever they are 

 discovered) from amongst such seedling plants, or 

 they will be contaminated. 



Balsam, yellow, or touch-me-not, is more fre- 

 quently sown in cold ground, (as others of this list, 

 cartltamus, cerinthe, Mexican poppy, princes j either, 

 and xerantkemum) but it is worth while to afford the 

 assistance of a little heat. This flower is sufficiently 



